Acts 22:25
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| Overview - Acts 22 | |
| 1 | Paul declares at large how he was converted to the faith, |
| 17 | and called to his apostleship. |
| 22 | At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim on him. |
| 24 | He would have been scourged; |
| 25 | but claiming the privilege of a Roman, he escapes. |
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Acts 22:25 (King James Version)
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
- the centurion
- 10:1 23:17 Acts 27:1 Acts 27:3 Acts 27:43 Matthew 8:8 ; 27:54
- Is it
- By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment.
- Acts 22:27 Acts 22:28 ; 16:37 25:16